hey baseballgirlie, a nice run you had. I finished off @ 22 with Ichiro finishing me off. I hope you stay around for the Sept. contest if there is one. Your picks definitely helped me get few more days out of my streak.

CHC for Survivor? I like that. Add to that, the wind blowing out, a slight edge to CHC vs PIT I’m thinking. Also, Evan Meek not in the game, no flame thrower to worry about
CIN Phillips out of lineup, pinch hitting possibility. Bruce late scratch. MIL over CIN may be a good pick today ’cause about 1/2 their power is out of the lineup.

lavolpe – Who do you like in Survivor for Wed?
How about TX?
Remember game closes early on Wed.
Manny not in lineup for ChiSox on Wed.
Pierre leads off the game with his patented line single to LF and I took Starlin Castro.

@dragbunt. Maybe want to ask some else, I chose MIL tonite :). Anyway, I’m favoring the Twins at the moment. TEX is out of question for me, no Hamilton, odds drop dramatically IMO. Bullington shut down NYY couple weeks ago. Hunter’s ERA is not overly impressive both teams have no real history vs opp’s pitchers.

Champ88: He had 360 before last nite when I posted & got 5 last nite. Will he play every remaining game, if not add 1 more 5 PA game for each one he misses. His 5 PA will probably come at away games unless ATL crushes @ some home games. We’ll see. If he keeps up his AVG & gets the 502 PAs, batting title is his most likely.

@champ88: My math is still off isn’t it? Miss 1 4-PA game, need 4 xtra 5-PA games to make it up. Anyway, as you can see, just missing 1 game moves the ratio closer to 50% 5-PAs & 4-PAs. 5-PAs @ home is tough w/1 less inning to play if winning. Miss 2 or more games and its all but over without a few xtra inning games. Injury?, goodbye.

“8-3 Nats My sorry survivor pattern over the last 8 days.
WLWLWLWL. Can anyone win even 4 straight these days? That game is impossible and getting to 10 seems very hard. 37? Are you kidding me no one is getting close!”

That happened during a very favorable 6-8 week environment a couple years ago.

You think 36 is impressive?

Try 28+ on the entire 1st page!

The guy that made it to 36 was different from the others though, so I am glad he won.

EVERY freaking team this guy picked was winning 6-0 in the 3rd inning.

It was insane how much run support he got.

I piled together a 17-game winning streak in that environment.

The leader and I were both eliminated when Joe Nathan blew a save in the 9th inning, but wholly because of a fielding error to start the inning.

@yanksgiantsdevils33: Remember when past leader went down with Teixeira 0-1? Well happened again, sort of, with a $3M potential. TB is being hammered & also 2-hitter, manager pulls out starting lineup in 6th, Longoria 0-1 & 1 BB. jcee5 out of the race.

@champion_88 That happened during a very favorable 6-8 week environment a couple years ago.

You think 36 is impressive?
Try 28+ on the entire 1st page!
The guy that made it to 36 was different from the others though, so I am glad he won.
EVERY freaking team this guy picked was winning 6-0 in the 3rd inning.
It was insane how much run support he got.
I piled together a 17-game winning streak in that environment.

I sure wish there was such a period this year. I got to 6, lost 1 and then got 9 straight.
Now look at the preview below and then the actual unfolding of that game.

From the Pirates Cubs preview:
In what appears to be a decided pitching mismatch, red-hot Chicago Cubs starter Ryan Dempster will try to earn a career-high fifth straight victory and complete a near-perfect August while the Pirates’ Jeff Karstens will try to avoid matching the longest skid in the majors this season.
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Every sign pointed to the Cubs and and the results are completely inverse. I hate baseball in terms of results of these 3 games this season!
BTW this too many posts is bull too. I submit 2 different posts and the 2nd says too many comments submitted.

“No offense to any of my bloggers, cause I really could care less about the NL,(Rangers and Yanks for me) but StL will smarten up shortly and make a run. And correct me if I’m wrong but don’t StL and Fla have a game to make up? I’m pretty sure I read somewhere StL has no more days off so would that not mean an oct 4th game?”

@dragbunt: Regarding who I like tomorrow for Survivor? If CIN wins today, I’m done playing Survivor this year. Not totally disappointed, I never got a streak greater than 6 in that game and had weeks of no picks. Just never gave it much effort. Where’s 2012 All Star game? Somewhere near water? If so, maybe I’ll try harder next year :)

My only “fun” from here until the end of season consists of 2 things:
1) Watching Cardinals choke their way out of playoff contention
2) Watching the last $3M potentials drop from the leaderboard. Cruel, but true.

@lavolpe I don’t wish anyone ill but with the disaster that I’ve been having it’s hard not to root for failure. I’m downgraded to playing for mostly pride but tonight’s 0 fer from Armas Ramirez officially eliminates me from the 35 streak prize.

@champ88. It was accoding to rotoworld. But when I pulled up GameDay 20mins before start, he wasn’t on the lineup. Tell you, if were on the edge of $3M, I’d be checking the lineup as soon as it is posted, no matter where I was. I consider the Phillips & Bruce picks to be a “get what you deserve” result. Different if it was a later game & no chance to see a lineup and unaware of resources like rotoworld.
@yanks: 35 streak prize? It’s $10K or better for me :) else I just don’t care. I root for failure every day and they are always at the top of the leaderboard.

Well it has been a pleasant night afterall: Survivor streak ends for good this year; not so pleasant. But at least 4 and maybe more $3M potentials fall out of the race and most importantly, the Cards choke yet again. 7 Games out of division, and if Philly wins, 4 out of wildcard. Even if Philly doesn’t win and COL does, 3 teams ahead of Cards in Wild Card chase. This bitter old Cubs fan still gets a little enjoyment — misery loves company you know!

“@dragbunt: Regarding who I like tomorrow for Survivor? If CIN wins today, I’m done playing Survivor this year. Not totally disappointed, I never got a streak greater than 6 in that game and had weeks of no picks. Just never gave it much effort. Where’s 2012 All Star game? Somewhere near water? If so, maybe I’ll try harder next year :)”

There’s still the prize to put together the longest streak of the year in Survivor, which is 29 right now.

You can still play for that.

The 2012 All-Star game is VERY FAR from any bodies of water, since it is in Kansas City!

“@lavolpe I don’t wish anyone ill but with the disaster that I’ve been having it’s hard not to root for failure. I’m downgraded to playing for mostly pride but tonight’s 0 fer from Armas Ramirez officially eliminates me from the 35 streak prize.”

“@champ88. It was accoding to rotoworld. But when I pulled up GameDay 20mins before start, he wasn’t on the lineup. Tell you, if were on the edge of $3M, I’d be checking the lineup as soon as it is posted, no matter where I was. I consider the Phillips & Bruce picks to be a “get what you deserve” result. Different if it was a later game & no chance to see a lineup and unaware of resources like rotoworld.”

Yeah, I agree about them deserving it, but I had never heard of rotoworld until reading this blog, so that is possible.

@champ88: Regarding the consolation prize in Survivor. If I read it correctly, you get a pair of tickets to ASG & HR derby. I’d imagine you’d have to pay a gift tax of some sort since they’re valued at $3K. Then you also gotta pay out of your own pocket, getting to Arizona & back, and a hotel for a couple nights. Now depending where you live, transportation may not be cheap. Hotels will probably be very expensive even if reserved tomorrow. So bottom line, you gotta really want to go to fork out that kinda cash to see an exhibition game or live nearby. Oh, I doubt MLB will mail you the tickets, you probably need to pick them up at the ballpark. So selling them on EBay is out of the question. I’ll pass on that prize, thank you.

@btsplayer- I will definitely stay around for the remainder of the season, but with my streak only at 3 I can only hope for the 30-game streak in September. Seeing as how my longest in four years is 23 I do not think it will happen but I will try until I lose. I’ll be back next year for sure. GL to you in September.

If you’re thinking about a white sock toady here’s a little scouting on carasco per Ohio.com:
“Carrasco posted a 10-6 record and 3.65 ERA in Triple-A. In 1501/3 innings, he has given up 139 hits, 45 walks and struck out 133, last September in 5 starts he posted am 0-4 record with an 8.85Era.”

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